SIRI is speech interpretation &; The acronym of Recognition Interface, which originally means speech recognition interface.
Siri can support natural language input, and can call the weather forecast, schedule, search data and other applications that come with the system. It can also constantly learn new sounds and intonations and provide conversational responses.
On June 20 16 13, the new function of siri was released at the Apple Developers Conference WWDC.
At the Apple WWDC Developers Conference in 20 17, Siri was updated with real-time translation function, which supports English, French, German and other languages, and will be supported in the future. At the same time, Siri's intelligence has been further improved, and it supports the context prediction function. Similar to the Google Assistant released earlier, users can even use Siri as the remote control of Apple TV.
Basic Introduction Chinese Name: Apple Voice Assistant mbth: Siri Founded in 2007 Software Type: Voice Assistant Similar Software: Google Now, Cortana, Secret Developer: Apple Basic Introduction, Research Background, Technical Source, Supporting Equipment, Function Introduction, Usage Technology, Overview, Front-end, Backend Technology, Web search, knowledge computing, software application, eleven functions, patent infringement, traffic demand, pornography-related disputes, problem exposure, incident handling, and blind spots in supervision. Basic introduction Research background Siri was founded in 2007, and was acquired by Apple for $200 million in 20 10. At first, it mainly used text chat service. Later, through cooperation with Nuance, the world's largest voice recognition manufacturer, Siri realized voice recognition function. The technical source Siri technology comes from the CALO project announced by the Advanced Research Planning Agency of the US Department of Defense: a digital assistant that simplifies the military's handling of some complicated common affairs and has the ability of learning, organization and cognition, and the civil version software Siri virtual personal assistant derived from it. Support device native: Iphone4S Iphone5 Iphone5S Iphone6Plus Iphone6S Iphone6S Plus Iphone7Plus Iphone8P. Lus iphone x iphone xs iphone xs max iphone xr the new ipad (ipad 3) ipad with Retina display (ipad 4) ipad mini ipad mini 2 ipad mini 3 ipad mini 4 ipad air ipad. Air 2 iPad Air 3 iPad Pro iPod Touch 5 iPod Touch 6 Note: Siri of iPhone4S needs iOS 6.0 (or higher version) to support Chinese. The new iPad needs iOS6.0 (or higher version) to support Siri. After jailbreak: iPhone 3GS iPod touch 4 iP. Hone 4 iPad 1 Note: 1. After jailbreaking, Siri Proxy is used to transfer to Apple's official server or FeelSiri server. 2.iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 4 support Siri porting under iOS 5 and iOS 6 systems. Because iOS 7 does not support these two devices, it cannot be ported. 3. In addition to supporting iOS 5 and iOS 6, iPhone 4 can upgrade iOS 7. Do not rule out the possibility of porting Siri to iOS 7. 4. iPad 1 Siri can be transplanted under IOS 5. Because you can't upgrade iOS 6 and iOS 7, you can't transplant them. 5. Except iPad 1 is not a perfect GUI transplant. In the iOS 6 environment, iPad 2 has completed the perfect GUI migration. Function introduction Users can search for life information such as restaurants and cinemas through voice control and text input, and at the same time, they can directly watch various related comments, even directly book and book tickets. In addition, its location-based service ability is also quite strong, which can judge and filter the search results according to the user's default home address or location. However, the biggest feature of the function improvement is the interaction between man and machine. It not only has a very vivid dialogue interface, but also gives answers to users' queries, which are not irrelevant. Sometimes, it even gives people a pleasant surprise. For example, if users say and input the words "I've had a drink" and "home" (it doesn't even need to be grammatical, it's quite human ...), Siri will judge it as drunk. Siri is more closely integrated with the system. Siri's pre-merger version integrated a large number of APIs of network services. Such as OpenTable, Tickets, Taxi Magic and so on. After Siri was acquired by Apple, it has been integrated into the system. In the Siri video of iOS 5, the interaction was initiated by Siri after a new short message appeared. It means that he has been stationed in the background of the system and can take over important system functions. (Besides short messages, there are weather, clocks, Maps, etc.) The languages supported by Siri are up to IOS6. 1, and Siri supports Chinese (Mandarin-China), Chinese (Cantonese-China), German (Germany), German (Switzerland), Italian (Italy), Italian (Switzerland), Japanese and French. French (Switzerland) English (Australia), English (United States), English (United Kingdom), English (Australia), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (United States), Spanish (Spain) and Korean. The overview of Siri usage technology in iOS 10 introduces the technology used by Siri. Many people will answer that artificial intelligence and cloud computing are, indeed, these two technologies in general, but this overview feels almost meaningless. Why not just say "computing technology" (note that it is not computer technology)? Therefore, in this article, I will introduce the technology that I know Siri may adopt (not necessarily accurate because of personal guess). Siri of iOS9 can help you to do more front-end technologies, that is, user-oriented and User Interface (UI) technologies, mainly speech recognition and speech synthesis technologies. Speech recognition technology is to convert users' spoken language into words, which requires a strong voice knowledge base, so the so-called "cloud computing" technology is needed. Speech synthesis is to convert the returned text results into voice output. This technology can be completed locally in theory, but I don't know if Siri is like this. Of course, it is not necessary to complete it in the cloud. Under the current wireless bandwidth, that voice traffic is nothing at all. With the cooperation background technology background technology, these are actually the real big roles. The purpose of these technologies is to deal with users' requests and return the most matching results. These requests are various and strange, and it is not easy to deal with them well. The basic structure guess may be to analyze the user's input (which has been converted by voice) and adopt the appropriate technology (appropriate technical background) to process it according to the input type. These suitable background technologies include: ① Web search technology represented by Google; ② Knowledge searching technology (or knowledge computing technology) represented by Wolfram Alpha; ③ Knowledge base represented by Wikipedia (unlike Wolfram Alpha, this knowledge comes from manual editing by human beings) technology (including other encyclopedias, such as movie encyclopedias, etc.); ④ Question answering and recommendation technology represented by Yelp. Siri function introduction Web search Google, which everyone uses every day, is the representative of this technology, while Baidu is the representative in China. The representative of Computational Knowledge technology is WolframAlpha. Unlike searching for Internet information, Wolfram|Alpha will excavate and build an unusually large organized database from public (including public web pages, etc.) and authorized resources, and then use advanced natural language algorithms to process it, and finally construct a tool similar to Google search. Different from web search technology, in this system, the answers are highly structured. For example, searching for China can get various parameters and materials related to China and present them in a form close to a table. Wolfram|Alpha can also understand some natural languages, such as How old are you, which will answer Wolfram|Alpha's age. If you want to test this technology, please go to Wolfram|Alpha. This technology should be available in China, but there is no product yet. Maybe Baidu's box computing is half. So there is a great opportunity. Compared with web search technology, knowledge base technology basically takes a term or topic as a unit, so the data obtained is of high value, large amount of knowledge and good structure. Compared with knowledge computing technology, these technologies need human participation, which has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that, after all, people are smarter than machines for the time being, and the edited knowledge is richer and more accurate; The disadvantage is that manpower is limited, even if the power of the community is mobilized like Wikipedia, it can't produce enough knowledge, and knowledge calculation, in theory, can produce "infinite" knowledge only by enough algorithms. Question-and-answer recommendation technology in fact, this can not be called a technology, but should belong to the knowledge base technology. The difference is that this technology is aimed at some life information, which is highly localized, and the typical representative is Yelp. Because this thing is relatively simple, I won't introduce it in detail. Language model technology This is how to improve Siri's ability to identify the names of local interest points such as enterprises and restaurants, and to integrate the knowledge of the user's location, which is called Geo-LM, so as to improve Siri's voice recognition ability. These models allow Siri to better evaluate the user's pronunciation content. The software is applied to the Apple launch of the iPhone 4S. Apple said that Siri Voice Assistant will become a part of iOS. Siri was originally a third-party application, which was purchased by Apple for $200 million. Although we can still see this set of useful figures on the App Store for a long time after the acquisition, it has not been updated for nearly a year. It was not until today that Apple introduced the function of Siri at the press conference that Siri was officially removed. The original Siri application interface (now off the shelf) What you may not have noticed is that Siri was carefully arranged: when Siri was first mentioned at the Apple Conference, this set of applications could be easily found in the App Store. But after the conference, this set of uses can no longer be found. It seems that Siri was taken off the shelf at the end of the conference. Why do you want to take it off the shelf? This may be because Apple is worried that if the third-party application can realize the functions of iPhone 4S, it will affect the desire of existing iPhone users to buy new iPhones, thus affecting sales. Siri supports speech recognition in English, French and German. The English part only supports American, British and Australian accents, but it is still difficult to recognize English accents in other countries and regions. In addition, Siri, defined by Apple as still in the "testing stage", supports map and local search in the United States, but Apple's Siri FAQ page in official website also promises that related functions will be extended to other countries in 20 12. Apple installed Siri on iOS6. The new Siri support languages include Japanese, Italian, China Chinese, Taiwan Province, Hongkong and other regional languages. You can use Siri to check the current game information, such as football, basketball and volleyball. Including scores and player information; Use it to search for the latest movie information and nearby cinemas; Siri can even help you find restaurant food, price, location and even star rating. In the early morning of September 20th, 20 12 Taipei time, Apple officially released the iOS6 operating system update on iPod, iPhone and iPad devices. According to the updated information, the upgrade package will have more than 200 new functions, including a brand-new Apple Map. Siri will also support Chinese in this update. On June 20 13 10, Apple officially released the iOS7 operating system update on iPod, iPhone and iPad devices. Among them, the word "beta" was removed from Siri. Eleven functions 1.Siri turns into an alarm clock. This should be the "serious" usage of Siri that users most easily think of. Hold down the "Home" button and tell Siri, "Wake me up at 7 am 15"; If you want to take a nap, just say "wake me up in 40 minutes" Siri will be the best alarm clock as long as the time is accurately reported. 2. It is the habit of many office workers to find a coffee shop with Siri. A cup of coffee can quickly adjust people to work. Looking for a coffee shop when you are away from home? All this can be done with Siri. Tell Siri to find the nearest coffee shop. If you don't attach any more requirements, Siri will give you a fairly good answer, probably telling you where the nearest Starbucks is. If Starbucks still can't meet your requirements, use more professional Help, which will give you more detailed answers. 3. Where do you want to go? Siri tells you that you often have to enter a lot of words in the process of finding a travel route. If you want to save trouble, let's do it all with Siri. When reporting the destination, Siri will call Google Maps to find a plan for the travel route. From the feedback of users who have tested this usage, Siri has not made any mistakes, just like GPS. On September 20 16 14, the official version of Apple's iOS 10 came out, and Yizhi is the first software supporting Siri voice calling in iOS 10. Siri can directly start Easy and help users complete car booking. 4. Play random music with Siri If you are tired of music playlists in a fixed order, you can try playing random music with Siri. First, you need to import your favorite music into a playlist called Favorites. When you start listening to music, tell Siri to "play Queen's songs". Then, Siri will match Queen's songs in the "Favorites" list and play them. In this way, the function of playing music at random is realized. 5. Sending text messages, Siri is still sending text messages while walking? Not to mention the unsafe road, it's still hard to send a text message. Let's do it with Siri in the future. When walking, put the iPhone to your ear and tell Siri "Tell her by SMS that I will be home late". Don't be in a hurry, tell Siri what you want to express, and you can easily send a short message. 6. Weather forecast, Siri knows that this is also a function that Siri is very good at. Siri can correctly understand the problem of meteorological information. To know what the weather will be like tomorrow, just ask Siri. 7. Remind the schedule with Siri Since you can use Siri as an alarm clock, you can certainly use it to remind the schedule. Many people have the habit of using Google Calendar to arrange their own schedules. There is absolutely no need to add some small things in life to Google calendar one by one. Siri can solve this problem. For example, "remind me to brush my teeth at ten o'clock". 8. using Siri to remind the location Siri's function of reminding the location is not perfect. Apart from "home" or "work place", Siri has poor understanding of some address forms. However, Siri's understanding of "here" is very accurate, that is, the current GPS coordinates. So you can use Siri's reminder function in this way. When you pass a good shop, you can mark its location as "here" and set a reminder so that you can visit again when you have time in the future. 9.Siri answers your questions. How high is Mount Everest? What is the GDP of the United States? If you can't answer, you don't need Google. Open your mouth and ask Siri. Siri itself doesn't know the answers to these questions. It will look for the answers from Wolfram Alpha, a knowledge quiz engine. All the answers will be presented in natural language. This is why Siri is considered to be an important threat to Google. Of course, Siri will certainly not replace Google for a long time, but the threat to Google will be long-term. When Siri is smart enough, it is not impossible for people to replace Google with it. 10. Use Siri to send Weibo (support Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo), but before using Siri to send Weibo, you have to make some necessary settings. 1 1. Use Siri to book movie tickets. Siri in iOS 9 has a new look, new sounds and new features. Its interface has been redesigned to fade into the top of any screen. Siri answers questions faster and can query more information sources, such as. It can undertake more tasks, such as returning calls, playing voice mails, adjusting screen brightness, and more patent infringement. On July 3rd, a court in Shanghai confirmed that it had received a complaint from Shanghai Zhizhen Network Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhizhen Network"), and the defendants were Apple Computer Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and Apple Company in the United States. Zhizhen. com believes that Siri in Apple's iPhone 4S infringes its invention patent. According to the patent search in China National Intellectual Property Administration, China, the patent named "A Chat Robot System" was filed on August 3, 2004 and announced on February 5, 2006. In the public description of the patent, it is indicated that the patentees are Shanghai Yingsi Software Technology Co., Ltd. and Yuan Hui, who is also the legal representative of Zhizhen Network. They are all related to the familiar application of "Little I Robot" by a person who uses MSN tools. On the company's website, Yuan Hui is known as "the father of China Internet Robot" and the chairman of Little I Robot. In addition, the product partners of Xiaoyi Robot include Lenovo Smart TV, China Mobile, JD.COM Mall and Shanghai Human Resources and Social Security Bureau. Traffic Demand Apple's iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, ipad3, ipad4, ipad mini 1 and ipod touch 5 all have an intelligent voice assistant Siri. Has been able to complete tasks such as web search, answering phone calls, setting reminders, sending text messages and emails. But there is a big problem that Siri needs the internet to work. Siri will send the voice to Apple's server after receiving the user's command. After processing, the server will send the result back to the user's mobile phone, and Siri will give corresponding answers or perform corresponding actions. But some tasks don't need an internet connection at all (create a reminder), which is a headache if the internet connection is not good or even there is no Wi-Fi. Further consideration, some users think that using Siri has a bigger disadvantage: if you open it up, the data traffic fee at the end of the month may surprise you. Traffic charges are not cheap, and this problem will indeed become more and more prominent. However, will the traffic consumed by Siri really "scare you"? During the 1 1 different tests, the amount of data was carefully observed, including tasks on local devices and tasks that need to be queried online. We also conducted four dictation tests. Of course, the specific traffic value of each user is completely based on how Siri is used and how often it is used. The following are the test results. We carried out six tasks that should belong to the local area. These include: "Set an alarm clock in 3 hours," "Set an appointment at 2 pm on Friday," (and then ask Siri to cancel the task) "Remind me to summarize the expense report when I get home," and "What is Ars Technica's contact information?" The data flow of these tasks after execution is 220 KB, and each task consumes 36.7 KB on average. In fact, the task with the lowest traffic used 18 KB, and the most was 60 KB. We think it has something to do with the complexity of the sentences used in the task and the language. The other five tasks need to be queried online. Some can get the results directly from Wolfram Alpha, and some will prompt us whether to search in the browser with the keywords we told Siri. For example, we asked, "How many calories are there in a muffin?" "How many movies did Kevin Bacon play?" (Google search is required for this one, and we said yes) and "What's Lady Gaga's real name?" Wait for questions. The data traffic consumption of these five tasks is 473.5 KB, with an average of 94.72 KB per task. The specific traffic varies from 23 KB to 187 KB, which depends on the situation of the problem itself. According to statistics, our 1 1 task used a total of 693.6 KB of data traffic, with an average of 63 KB per task. As you can see from the above, it is logical that local Siri tasks consume significantly less traffic. In addition to this 1 1 task, we also conducted four dictation with Siri: two short emails (one with the word 15 and the other with about 40 words) and two short messages (each with about 6- 10 words). The traffic used in short message dictation is 12 KB and 18 KB respectively, with an average of 15 KB per message. E-mails are 36 KB and 109 KB respectively, with an average of 72.5 KB each. Obviously, the longer the message length, the more traffic will be consumed, which depends entirely on your wording. Results If you use iPhone4S and let Siri perform this 1 1 task every day through mobile phone data traffic (such as 3G network), the traffic consumed after 30 days will be about 20 MB. But each user will definitely ask different questions, and the frequency of use will be very different. According to the survey (including colleagues around us and the survey conducted on Twitter), the usage frequency of different users can be roughly divided into three categories: 1-3 times a day, 4-6 times a day, and 10- 15 times a day. There are also users who say that they use it more than 20 times a day, but this situation is very rare. Personally, I'm surprised to see such a large number. I use it only 2-3 times a day, but my colleague Ken Fisher says he uses it about 15 times a day. These figures are really not easy to see. And as we said before, the amount you use depends entirely on your wording, the type of task you require to perform and the frequency of your use. These statistics are just for reference, they can only show a general range. If you use Siri 2-3 times a day and use 63 KB of traffic each time, the daily usage will reach 126 KB to 189 KB, so the monthly traffic consumption will be 3.7 MB to 5.5 MB. For users who use it 4-6 times a day, the daily traffic will reach 252 KB to 378 KB, and it will take about 7.4 MB to 1 1 MB every month. If you use 10- 15 times a day, the daily traffic will be 630 KB to 945 KB, and the data traffic of 18.5 MB to 27.7 MB will be consumed every month. The next question is: Is your data traffic package enough? IPhone Internet access in mainland China mainly includes Unicom's 3G network, mobile GPRS or EDGE network. Unicom's 3G data traffic starts from 40 MB per month and is divided into many different package stalls, which move similarly. The specific package selection and collocation can be determined according to your own situation. However, at present, even if 15 Siri is used every day, the traffic will not exceed the limit of the minimum package. As we have repeatedly stressed, the actual traffic generated by each user is different due to several major factors such as different frequency of use. These values are the results of our test, and can be used as a reference when you choose your own data package. Apple released an operator upgrade package for the Verizon version of iPhone 5 to solve the wireless problem. The dispute over pornography was exposed in 20 12 years 10 months. Some netizens said that Siri, the voice dialogue software of Apple's iPhone, can provide information about "escort" places, which triggered heated public opinion. The investigation found that some places provided by Apple were indeed suspected of being involved in pornography. Apple responded that Siri can't set the keyword ban, but experts pointed out that Apple has a design for special treatment of sensitive words, but it has not included the above content in the ban list. The incident was handled on 20 12128, and Siri will not search for "whoring" places again! Apple's customer service staff said that the "escort" information has been included in the prohibited scope. Siri no longer provides information about "escort" places. In this regard, Apple's customer service staff said that according to the user's reflection, the "escort" information was also included in the prohibited scope; The forbidden scope includes not only pornographic information such as "escort", but also information that violates the laws of China, such as violence. The blind spot of supervision considers that this kind of information is convenient for * * * and may endanger social order. Moreover, due to the large number of users and the potential harm, Apple must make corrections in time, and functional departments can come forward to supervise. According to the existing laws, Internet information service providers are not allowed to publish and disseminate obscene, pornographic and other harmful information prohibited by Chinese laws and regulations. However, Siri's provision of information about "escort" places does not directly harm minors' body and mind like obscene pictures and videos, so it is not illegal. However, according to the Self-Regulation of Internet Sites on Prohibiting the Dissemination of Bad Information such as Obscene Pornography, Internet information service providers are not allowed to set up or set up channels or columns that are immoral and easy to facilitate. In case of violation of this self-discipline standard, the violation shall be corrected in time; If persuasion and warning are ineffective, the Internet News and Information Service Working Committee of the Internet Association of China has the obligation to suggest to the relevant departments of * * * that they be disqualified from providing relevant information services. The regulatory authorities can ask Apple to "patch" the mobile phone products that have been sold and will be sold, and prohibit the content that is potentially harmful to social order. If the places mentioned by Siri are not pornographic places, Apple may also take the risk of civil lawsuits and claims from these places.